So far, we have worked with digraphs, blends, glued sounds and suffixes. We have also worked on closed syllables and closed syllable exceptions, as well as words with more than one syllable. This unit will focus on the vowel-consonant-e syllable. The students will review the v-e syllable from Level 1 Fundations. In these types of syllables, there is a vowel, then a consonant and then an e. The first vowel is long and the e is silent. The students will be reviewing the long vowel sounds, including the two u sounds in a v-e syllable. We will also teach that s can say /z/ when it is between two vowels, as in the words nose and rose. The students will also learn an exception to the v-e syllable. This exception, -ive, can also be a suffix. It is pronounced with a short i sound, instead of the excepted long sound, as in give, active and olive.

Current Trick Words:

only house move

right place together

Thomas Jefferson

Elementary School

Principal

Gary Breen

95 Altair Drive

Turnersville, NJ 08012

Phone: 856-589-8248

The mission of the Washington Township Public Schools is to provide a safe, positive, and progressive environment that provides opportunity for all students to attain the knowledge and skills specified in the New Jersey Student Learning Standards at all grade levels, as to ensure their full participation in an ever changing world as responsible, self-directed, and civic-minded citizens.